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OVERVIEW OF SECURITY OVER INTERNET

Zeeshan Qaiserzeeshanqaiser1@gmail.com

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A Brief History of the World

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Overview What is security? Why do we need security? Who is vulnerable? Common security attacks and countermeasures

– Firewalls & Intrusion Detection Systems– Denial of Service Attacks– TCP Attacks– Packet Sniffing– Social Problems– Ethical Hacking

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What is “Security” Dictionary.com says:

– 1. Freedom from risk or danger; safety.– 2. Freedom from doubt, anxiety, or fear; confidence.– 3. Something that gives or assures safety, as:

• 1. A group or department of private guards: Call building security if a visitor acts suspicious.

• 2. Measures adopted by a government to prevent espionage, sabotage, or attack.

• 3. Measures adopted, as by a business or homeowner, to prevent a crime such as burglary or assault: Security was lax at the firm's smaller plant.

…etc.

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What is “Security” Dictionary.com says:

– 1. Freedom from risk or danger; safety.– 2. Freedom from doubt, anxiety, or fear; confidence.– 3. Something that gives or assures safety, as:

• 1. A group or department of private guards: Call building security if a visitor acts suspicious.

• 2. Measures adopted by a government to prevent espionage, sabotage, or attack.

• 3. Measures adopted, as by a business or homeowner, to prevent a crime such as burglary or assault: Security was lax at the firm's smaller plant.

…etc.

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What is “Security” Dictionary.com says:

– 1. Freedom from risk or danger; safety.– 2. Freedom from doubt, anxiety, or fear; confidence.– 3. Something that gives or assures safety, as:

• 1. A group or department of private guards: Call building security if a visitor acts suspicious.

• 2. Measures adopted by a government to prevent spying, damage, or attack.

• 3. Measures adopted, as by a business or homeowner, to prevent a crime such as breaking and entering or attack: Security was negligent at the firm's smaller plant.

…etc.

Security concepts within different people

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Security (physically) Bodyguard Security alarms at homes Fire alarms Security system at cars Gate example (two gates) etc….

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Security within system/pc Some people say we don’t need it Some only rely on firewalls Some install anti viruses

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Security over internet Protect vital information while still allowing

access to those who need it– Trade secrets, medical records, – Email, credit card numbers– etc.

Provide authentication and access control for resources– Ex: passwords

FACEBOOK What do you demand for the security here?

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Email What do you demand for the security here?

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Who is vulnerable? Financial institutions and banks Internet service providers Pharmaceutical companies Government and defense agencies Contractors to various government agencies Multinational corporations GUYS & GIRLS ON SOCIAL NETWORKS ANYONE ON THE NETWORK

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Common security attacks and their countermeasures Finding a way into the network

– Firewalls Exploiting software bugs, buffer overflows

– Intrusion Detection Systems Denial of Service

– Ingress filtering, IDS TCP hijacking

– IPSec Packet sniffing

– Encryption (SSH, SSL, HTTPS) Social problems

– Education

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Finding a way into network(Firewalls) Basic problem – many network applications

and protocols have security problems that are fixed over time– Difficult for users to keep up with changes and

keep host secure– Solution

• Administrators limit access to end hosts by using a firewall

• Firewall is kept up-to-date by administrators

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Firewalls A firewall is like a castle with a drawbridge

– Only one point of access into the network– This can be good or bad

Can be hardware or software– Ex. Some routers come with firewall functionality– ipfw, ipchains, pf on Unix systems, Windows XP

and Mac OS X have built in firewalls

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Firewalls

Internal network

DMZInternet

Firewall

Firewall

Web server, email server, web proxy, etc

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Firewalls Used to filter packets based on a combination of

features– These are called packet filtering firewalls

• There are other types too, but they will not be discussed

– Ex. Drop packets with destination port of 23 (Telnet)– Can use any combination of IP/UDP/TCP header

information

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Buffer Overflows(Intrusion Detection) Used to monitor for “suspicious activity” on a

network– Can protect against known software exploits, like

buffer overflows Open Source IDS: Snort, www.snort.org

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Intrusion Detection Uses “intrusion signatures”

– Well known patterns of behavior• Ping sweeps, OS, DoS attempts, etc.

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Dictionary Attack We can run a dictionary attack on the passwords

– The passwords in /etc/passwd are encrypted with the crypt(3) function (one-way hash)

– Can take a dictionary of words, crypt() them all, and compare with the hashed passwords

This is why your passwords should be meaningless random junk!– For example, “sdfo839f” is a good password

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Denial of Service Purpose: Make a network service unusable,

usually by overloading the server or network Many different kinds of DoS attacks

– SYN flooding– SMURF– Distributed attacks

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Denial of Service SYN flooding attack Send SYN packets with fake source address

– Why? Server responds with SYN ACK and keeps state

about TCP half-open connection– Eventually, server memory is exhausted with this state

Solution: use “SYN cookies”

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Denial of Service

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Denial of Service SMURF

– Large number of machines respond back to victim, overloading it

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Denial of Service

Internet

Perpetrator V ictim

ICM P echo (spoofed source address of vic tim )Sent to IP broadcast address

IC M P echo rep ly

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Denial of Service Distributed Denial of Service

– Same techniques as regular DoS, but on a much larger scale

– Example: Sub7Server Trojan and IRC bots• Infect a large number of machines with a “zombie” program• Zombie program logs into an IRC channel and awaits commands• Read more at: http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm

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Denial of Service How can we protect ourselves?

– Ingress filtering• If the source IP of a packet comes in on an interface

which does not have a route to that packet, then drop it

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TCP Attacks Recall how IP works…

– End hosts create IP packets and routers process them purely based on destination address alone

Problem: End hosts may lie about other fields which do not affect delivery– Source address – host may trick destination into

believing that the packet is from a trusted source• Especially applications which use IP addresses as a

simple authentication method• Solution – use better authentication methods

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TCP Attacks If an attacker learns the associated TCP

state for the connection, then the connection can be hijacked!

Attacker can insert malicious data into the TCP stream, and the recipient will believe it came from the original source– Ex. Instead of downloading and running new

program, you download a virus and execute it

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TCP Attacks Say hello to Alice, Bob and Mr. Big Ears

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TCP Attacks Alice and Bob have an established TCP

connection

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TCP Attacks Mr. Big Ears lies on the path between Alice

and Bob on the network– He can intercept all of their packets

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TCP Attacks First, Mr. Big Ears must drop all of Alice’s

packets since they must not be delivered to Bob (why?)

Packets

The Void

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TCP Attacks Then, Mr. Big Ears sends his malicious

packet with (sniffed from the network)

ISN, SRC=Alice

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TCP Attacks Why are these types of TCP attacks so

dangerous?

Web server

Malicious user

Trusting web client

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TCP Attacks How do we prevent this? IPSec

– Provides source authentication, so Mr. Big Ears cannot pretend to be Alice

– Encrypts data before transport, so Mr. Big Ears cannot talk to Bob without knowing what the session key is

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Five Minute Break For your enjoyment, here is something

completely unrelated to this lecture:

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Social Problems People can be just as dangerous as

unprotected computer systems– People can be lied to, manipulated, bribed,

threatened, harmed, tortured, etc. to give up valuable information

– Most humans will breakdown once they are at the “harmed” stage, unless they have been specially trained

• Think government here…

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Social Problems Fun Example 1:

– “Hi, I’m your AT&T rep, I’m stuck on a pole. I need you to punch a bunch of buttons for me”

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Social Problems Fun Example 2:

– Someone calls you in the middle of the night• “Have you been calling Egypt for the last six hours?”• “No”• “Well, we have a call that’s actually active right now,

it’s on your calling card and it’s to Egypt and as a matter of fact, you’ve got about $2000 worth of charges on your card and … read off your AT&T card number and PIN and then I’ll get rid of the charge for you”

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Social Problems There aren’t always solutions to all of these problems

– Humans will continue to be tricked into giving out information they shouldn’t

– Educating them may help a little here, but, depending on how bad you want the information, there are a lot of bad things you can do to get it

So, the best that can be done is to implement a wide variety of solutions and more closely monitor who has access to what network resources and information– But, this solution is still not perfect

PENETRATION TESTING Method of evaluating the security of

a computer system or network

By simulating an attack from malicious outsiders

Active analysis of the system for any potential vulnerabilities

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LOOP HOLES Browsers SSL Obsolete antivirus etc

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Conclusions The Internet works only because we implicitly

trust one another It is very easy to exploit this trust The same holds true for software It is important to stay on top of the latest

CERT security advisories to know how to patch any security holes

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Security related URLs http://www.robertgraham.com/pubs/network-i

ntrusion-detection.html http://online.securityfocus.com/infocus/1527 http://www.snort.org/ http://www.cert.org/ http://www.nmap.org/ http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/newtcp/